Latest NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship News

Strack scores 22, No. 22 Kentucky starts Kenny Brooks era with 98-43 win over USC Upstate

Nov. 04, 2024 22:23 PM EST

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 22 points, Georgia Amoore added 11, and No. 22 Kentucky started with a 98-43 win over South Carolina Upstate on Monday in the Wildcats' first game under Kenny Brooks. Brooks built Virginia Tech into an NCAA Tournament regular and brought...

No. 15 North Carolina women beat Charleston Southern 83-53 to begin the season

Nov. 04, 2024 13:31 PM EST

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Alyssa Ustby had 18 points, eight rebounds and four assists, Lexi Donarski added 14 points, and No. 15 North Carolina beat Charleston Southern 83-53 on Monday to begin the season. UNC has won 12 straight games against Charleston Southern and seven...

Hannah Hidalgo takes relentless approach to improving her game for No. 6 Notre Dame

Nov. 01, 2024 13:02 PM EDT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame point guard Hannah Hidalgo expects even more in her second college season than she did in her first. Yes, more than first team All-American honors, more than a Sweet 16 run in the NCAA Tournament, even more than being named the top guard in...

Iowa begins post-Caitlin Clark era with lower expectations and a new coach. Players see opportunity

Oct. 29, 2024 11:02 AM EDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Caitlin Clark era at Iowa ended with her as the NCAA Division I overall scoring leader and the Hawkeyes playing in two straight national championship games and being the hottest ticket in women's basketball. Clark recently finished her first pro season as...

South Carolina leads the way as women's college basketball hopes to build off last year's success

Oct. 28, 2024 10:45 AM EDT

Dawn Staley and South Carolina ran through last season undefeated on the way to the school’s third national championship. With a lot of that squad back, there is good reason to think the Gamecocks could repeat. Standing in their way could be a healthy UConn led by Paige Bueckers...

Four new schools join the rough-and-tumble Big 12, and Utah believes it can succeed right away

Oct. 24, 2024 10:13 AM EDT

The thing that stood out to Utah coach Lynne Roberts when she began to prepare for the Utes' move to the Big 12 was not the overall toughness of the league, though that was impressive, or the size or depth or talent level of its teams. It was the vastly different styles that they...

Ivey has No. 6 Notre Dame back atop ACC women's race featuring 5 other AP Top 25 teams

Oct. 24, 2024 10:12 AM EDT

Notre Dame rolled into the Atlantic Coast Conference with a wave of championships before a two-year dip. Niele Ivey has the sixth-ranked Fighting Irish back in top position again. They won last year's ACC Tournament title for her first as head coach, and now they're the preseason...

Watkins, Bueckers headline preseason AP All-America team in women's hoops; 3 sophomores for 1st time

Oct. 22, 2024 18:00 PM EDT

USC star JuJu Watkins and UConn's Paige Bueckers headline The Associated Press preseason All-America women's college basketball team released Tuesday that for the first time includes three sophomores in a clear sign of the young talent in a sport coming off a record year of fan interest. ...

Gonzaga's Lisa Fortier ready to coach again with cancer treatment behind her

Oct. 16, 2024 21:26 PM EDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Her breast cancer treatment concluded, Lisa Fortier walked into Gonzaga's basketball facility last week and was greeted by balloons, streamers and her players blowing horns. Yvonne Ejim told her coach through tears how proud she was of Fortier, saying, “I never...

Olivia Miles has fought back from a knee injury. She's set to return in Notre Dame's star backcourt

Oct. 08, 2024 17:24 PM EDT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There were plenty of days that Olivia Miles felt the pangs of frustration building alongside the pain and soreness, all part of the Notre Dame All-American point guard's push to rehab her way back from a serious knee injury. Sometimes it came during the...